PLAN of the HARBOUR and FORTIFICATIONS of LOUISBOURG : The Harbour Survey'd by Capt Phill Durell the Town & Fortifications by I. H. Bastide Enginr for Nova Scotia

Bastide, John Henry, approximately 1700-1770

Durell, Philip, -1766

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

[1745]

The Harbour Survey'd by Capt Phill Durell the Town & Fortifications by I. H. Bastide Enginr for Nova Scotia,

Scale approximately 1:6,300

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Fortification--Nova Scotia--Louisbourg--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Military art and science--Nova Scotia--Louisbourg--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Louisbourg (N.S.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Louisbourg (N.S.)--History--Siege, 1745--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Canada
• Louisbourg
• North and Central America
• Nova Scotia

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour, with pencil, 52 x 73 cm

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• Relief shown by shading.
• Sounding depths are given.
• Shows title at upper right.
• Shows a lettered key at lower right including a "Scale of half a mile" and a decorative compass rose sketched in pencil.
• Shows manuscript addition in ink in margin at lower right, "B: 16: F: 58" (copied from Add Ms 57,702.9.?).
• Compare Maps K.Top.119.88.2. for an exact (?) copy of this map.
• Compare other maps of Louisbourg linked to Bastide in the R.U.S.I. collection (Add Ms 57,702.8 / Add Ms 57,702.9 / Add Ms 57,702.10 / Add Ms 57.702.12.) - copies of the map by different hands?
• Copy at Add Ms 57,702.11. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXVII. Shows manuscript addition of "A 28/74" in pencil and "64" in ink at lower left. Shows manuscript addition of "C 8" in pencil at lower right. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso showing "18". White label to verso showing "DRAWER 28 SECTION 1". Blue label to verso shows "A 28/74".